Officials enacted the ban on Tuesday (April 15) after the county's drought scale, the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI), ...

Construction of “congestion relief lanes” on Interstate 4 in Polk County has finished ahead of schedule, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday. The project, adding one lane in each ...

The county has now released a study exploring possible solutions to help alleviate flooding along Taylor Road. One of the proposed solutions includes widening the retention area right next to the ...

Hillsborough County ... management and flood protection measures after back-to-back hurricanes. The meeting focused on several neighborhoods that were not FEMA designated flood zones but still ...

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — The Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Winter Haven Police Department and Polk County Fire Rescue were searching Thursday afternoon for a juvenile in Lake Roy who was swimming ...

With less than two weeks remaining in Florida's legislative session, time is running out for a bill to make the state a hands-free driving zone to get ... Miami-Dade County alone saw 18 distracted ...

There were 57 wildfires burning across Florida April 15, 2025. The largest fire is burning more than 100 acres in the Panhandle. Map shows locations ... Road fire in Gulf County.

If you live in an area designed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a designated high-risk flood zone — pretty much ... their resources. This map from FEMA shows the high-risk ...

Fire hazard severity zone maps evaluate “hazard,” not “risk”. They are like flood zone maps, where lands are described in terms of the probability level of a particular area being ...